# Clare's Beeminder Journal **URL:** \ **Category:** Life\ **Created:** [August 8, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clares-beeminder-journal/11849 "2024-08-08T00:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![felixm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/felixm/32/4955_2.png) [@felixm](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/felixm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clares-beeminder-journal/11849/6 "2024-08-16T21:34:03Z")
> [@claredragonfly](#): > > I finished _Braiding Sweetgrass_ (wonderful book, highly recommended) I got this gifted as a paperback years ago and never even looked into it. I am going to start reading it. > [@claredragonfly](#): > > It’s weird how it actually turned blue and then orange, and then gave me a warning that it was a beemergency, but I think I’ve seen that happen before so I guess it’s just how completed goals work? Yeah, I think that’s how it works. Nicky posted a while ago how to archive such goals early before they turn orange or red, but it requires the graph editor and is not super straightforward. > [@Tutorial: how Nicky ends completed goals early (if there's enough buffer)](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tutorial-how-nicky-ends-completed-goals-early-if-theres-enough-buffer/10132): > > Hi! I’ve promised a tutorial on this before, I think, and I’ve definitely promised it today. The standard use-case for me with my reading goals is that I have a set total to reach (the last page of the book) and a set pace (5 pages/day)… which I actually expect to exceed frequently. Sometimes I exceed it by a lot, and finish a book long before the actual slope of the graph reaches the end-total. Example: Now I want to archive this goal so it won’t get in my way all the time when I w… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clares-beeminder-journal/11849)._